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HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY - MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
LIBRARY LINKS
^0^'
LIBRARY HOURS
Spring /Summer 1991
on.-Thurs. 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 p.m.
Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:15p.ni.
Saturday 10:00 a.ni. - 4:45 p.m.
Sunday 2:00 p.m. - 7:45 p.m«
CIRCULATION POLICIES Books: two weeks A/V Materials: one week Journals: Unbound issues do not circulate Bound volumes - one week
Renewals may be made for books
in person or by phone.
No renewals for AA^ or journals
TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Information Desk 737-6672
Circulation Desk 737-6671
Interlibrary Loan 737-6628
Location and Hours 737-6671 Computer Search
Service 737-6676
Instructional Service 737-6672
Administration 737-6670
echnical Service 737-6673
elefacsimile (FAX) 737-6866
JULY 1991
Journal price increases: the looming crisis
Academic and health sciences hbraries are facing a crisis. The crisis is the rapid inflation of prices for journal subscriptions. Journal prices have risen steadily since the nineteen seventies and skyrocketed in the nineteen eighties. The impact on Ubrary and institutional budgets has been devastating.
Studies of the subscription costs for biomedical journals indexed in ihclndex Medicos or MEDLINE database of the National Library of Medicine indicate the following realities:
• 2,337 Index Medicus journals
with set subscription rates in 1990
• total cost for these journals was over $500,428
• 73% increase in total cost between 1986 and 1990
• average price of an Index
Medicus ']0\mi2l was $214.13 in 1990
Note: All prices are based on US dollars and pricing*
A recent updating of the/ndexMed/ci^ Price Study indicates that the combined cost of dlUndexMedicus titles increased by approximately nineteen percent from 1990 to 1991.^ ^rhe Health Sciences Library is predicting a 20 percent increase in journal subscription costs from 1991 to 1992.
Table 1 provides an overview of the costs and cost increases associated
VOLUME III NUMBER 4
ISSN: 0M7-2fi1^
with journals in selected health sciences areas of interest.
The reasons for these price increases are numerous and varied. Increased publisher costs, exchange rates, increased volume of publishing, copyrightfees,pubhsharprofitincreases, taxes such as the GST and general inflation are only a few of the factors which affect journal subscription price increases.
The impact of the increases, however, is clear. Health sciences and academic libraries can no longer afford to purchase all of the journals to which they might normally wish to subscribe. Most cannot afford to maintain the journals to which they already subscribe, let alone purchase new joumals.
The significance of these price increases should be obvious to all. Journal subscription price increases are not just a problem for the Ubrary. They are a serious problem for faculty, staff, students and institutional administrators. Institutions are rapidly finding themselves in a situation where they can no longer afford to adequately support the acquisition of joumals which are crucial to scholarly communication and the exchange of knowledge.
So, what is to be done about this crisis?
WHATS INSIDE
Journal price increases 1
Clinical alerts from Medlars 2
New joumals received 2
Automated system 3
Appointment assoc univ lib (HS) 3
Help for lonely searcher 3
ETNET 3
Debit cards 3
Viruses 4
CAL software submissions 4

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HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY - MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
LIBRARY LINKS
^0^'
LIBRARY HOURS
Spring /Summer 1991
on.-Thurs. 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 p.m.
Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:15p.ni.
Saturday 10:00 a.ni. - 4:45 p.m.
Sunday 2:00 p.m. - 7:45 p.m«
CIRCULATION POLICIES Books: two weeks A/V Materials: one week Journals: Unbound issues do not circulate Bound volumes - one week
Renewals may be made for books
in person or by phone.
No renewals for AA^ or journals
TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Information Desk 737-6672
Circulation Desk 737-6671
Interlibrary Loan 737-6628
Location and Hours 737-6671 Computer Search
Service 737-6676
Instructional Service 737-6672
Administration 737-6670
echnical Service 737-6673
elefacsimile (FAX) 737-6866
JULY 1991
Journal price increases: the looming crisis
Academic and health sciences hbraries are facing a crisis. The crisis is the rapid inflation of prices for journal subscriptions. Journal prices have risen steadily since the nineteen seventies and skyrocketed in the nineteen eighties. The impact on Ubrary and institutional budgets has been devastating.
Studies of the subscription costs for biomedical journals indexed in ihclndex Medicos or MEDLINE database of the National Library of Medicine indicate the following realities:
• 2,337 Index Medicus journals
with set subscription rates in 1990
• total cost for these journals was over $500,428
• 73% increase in total cost between 1986 and 1990
• average price of an Index
Medicus ']0\mi2l was $214.13 in 1990
Note: All prices are based on US dollars and pricing*
A recent updating of the/ndexMed/ci^ Price Study indicates that the combined cost of dlUndexMedicus titles increased by approximately nineteen percent from 1990 to 1991.^ ^rhe Health Sciences Library is predicting a 20 percent increase in journal subscription costs from 1991 to 1992.
Table 1 provides an overview of the costs and cost increases associated
VOLUME III NUMBER 4
ISSN: 0M7-2fi1^
with journals in selected health sciences areas of interest.
The reasons for these price increases are numerous and varied. Increased publisher costs, exchange rates, increased volume of publishing, copyrightfees,pubhsharprofitincreases, taxes such as the GST and general inflation are only a few of the factors which affect journal subscription price increases.
The impact of the increases, however, is clear. Health sciences and academic libraries can no longer afford to purchase all of the journals to which they might normally wish to subscribe. Most cannot afford to maintain the journals to which they already subscribe, let alone purchase new joumals.
The significance of these price increases should be obvious to all. Journal subscription price increases are not just a problem for the Ubrary. They are a serious problem for faculty, staff, students and institutional administrators. Institutions are rapidly finding themselves in a situation where they can no longer afford to adequately support the acquisition of joumals which are crucial to scholarly communication and the exchange of knowledge.
So, what is to be done about this crisis?
WHATS INSIDE
Journal price increases 1
Clinical alerts from Medlars 2
New joumals received 2
Automated system 3
Appointment assoc univ lib (HS) 3
Help for lonely searcher 3
ETNET 3
Debit cards 3
Viruses 4
CAL software submissions 4